About this title: Inspired by the novel "Adrift on the Nile" by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, "Adrift" is set against the backdrop of a region burdened by the gorgon-head legacies of colonialism, corruption, and violent dictatorship. It is about a group of secular Egyptians at the epicenter of the West's ever-accelerating and utterly ahistorical imperial culture of commoditization and capital and its doppelganger: the tide of religious fundamentalism that is growing ever more powerful in its wake.Beginning as a drugged-out drawing room comedy, "Adrift" ends in violent chaos - by the end of the play, ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd
Date Published: 2008-07-30
ISBN-13:9780889225855ISBN:0889225850
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